Marcus Willaschek

Marcus Willaschek (born 1962 in Arnsberg) is a German philosopher who is primarily concerned with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant as well as epistemology, theories of rationality and metaphysics.

Willaschek graduated from the Laurentianum grammar school in Arnsberg in 1982 and then studied philosophy with the minor subjects of biology, law and psychology at the University of Münster from 1984 to 1991.

His habilitation thesis was published in 2003 under the title Der mentale Zugang zur Welt.

In 2020, Willaschek received the Henry Allison Senior Scholar Prize from the North American Kant Society for his book Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Die Revolution des Denkens, Willaschek was nominated for the German Non-Fiction Prize (Deutscher Sachbuchpreis) in 2024.